Michelle Minkoff » excel http://michelleminkoff.com =SUM (Passion + journalism + data + technology) Wed, 16 May 2012 16:29:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 How to “Group By” in Excel http://michelleminkoff.com/2010/01/20/how-to-group-by-in-excel/ http://michelleminkoff.com/2010/01/20/how-to-group-by-in-excel/#comments Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:17:05 +0000 Michelle Minkoff http://michelleminkoff.com/?p=402 Random time-saving Excel tip.  Want to condense a long column to only display unique entries?  Go to the Data menu, select Filter and Advanced Filter.  Voila, a check box labeled “Unique records only”.  Don’t know why I never noticed this before.

Or, you know, you could use Group By in SQL.  But no need to import databases just for filtering.

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